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1. Your healthcare system.

If I get cancer and I'm poor, do I just quietly die because I can't afford treatment?
Does my family lose their house paying for it?

Why are there not riots in the streets!?

2. I ate reeces peanut butter cups once and it was neither chocolate nor peanut butter. It was brown candle wax and gritty tasteless gunk. EXPLAIN.

3. Your meal portion sizes that are big enough for a family and your family size portions that no family should consume ever. Why is your soft drink size small the same as our large. Why.

4. Guns.

5. TRUMP.

Does my family lose their house paying for it?

Traditionally, yes.

It's somewhat hard to explain how all of this came about, but the basic principles are, one, America has an extremely well-developed, entrenched, and powerful upper class which has been making concerted efforts to destroy the social safety net and capitalize and exploit every part of society for 38 years. Two, racism is deeply embedded in American society and generally gets leveraged for popular support for those policies across the board. There's a lot of other stuff to say here but those are the big 2.

2. I ate reeces peanut butter cups once and it was neither chocolate nor peanut butter. It was brown candle wax and gritty tasteless gunk. EXPLAIN.

The chocolate is bad, I'll grant you that, but the peanut butter is delicious. It's not actually peanut butter, just think of it as a weird peanut butter fudge or something. But it's better delivered in Reese's Pieces.

3. Your meal portion sizes that are big enough for a family and your family size portions that no family should consume ever. Why is your soft drink size small the same as our large. Why.

Food is good, we have a lot of it, capitalism

Trader Joe makes a better peanut butter cup
lots of Americans are on diets
lots of us hate trump's guts and didn't vote for him

Because we prioritize states rather than people, the majority of voters didn't vote for Trump.

oh my gaaaaaawd, the Trader Joe's peanut butter cups! Yes.

I WILL NOT HAVE YOU BESMIRCH THE NAME OF REESES LIKE THIS.

You're right about the healthcare system, though.

So I live in California. Other states may manage this differently, but as for health care—

When my paternal grandfather died, each of his three sons inherited a third of his estate—my dad, his older brother, and his younger brother. The eldest always managed to get by, but had never been well off, and he was tired of working dead-end jobs. And he finally had a big chunk of change. He was 62 or so, not yet eligible for Medicare, the federal government-funded (via payroll taxes) healthcare safety net for senior citizens that kicks in at 65.

He quit his job and lost his employee health insurance—something not every job provides—and was promptly diagnosed with colon cancer, and thus rendered uninsurable. The big chunk of change he’d been planning to live on went towards medical bills. And then he was signed up for a program run by the county medical center. They paid for his bills while he was alive, in exchange for a lien on his 1/3 of my grandparents’ house.

When he died, we had to sell the house to pay the cost of his bills back to the county—$167,000.00, because my uncle had no spouse or children. If he’d had children living in the house, or if I’d been living there when he died, or if the youngest brother had been living there—basically, any other blood relative—the house would’ve been sold when they died.

Theoretically, if my uncle had had kids and their kids inherited the house and their grandkids and great-grandkids did likewise, the county might not get their money back for generations. There’s even more regulations for what would happen if his hypothetical descendents sold the house, but no, if he’d had surviving family living there, they wouldn’t have been left homeless.

But this was a county—very local—program, using state rather than federal funds. I’m not even sure how it would’ve worked the next county over, nevermind in a different state.

1a. Yes.
1b. Maybe. Probably.
1c. There has been. No one in power gives a shit.

2. Your mouth is broken.

3. Bigger is better, and leftovers are the best!

4. *see 1c*

5. Republicans like money. Trump is giving them money.

Edited 2018-05-13 00:11 (UTC)

1. you become even poorer and you die quietly, yes. it's because we've allowed the super wealthy to horde all the money away and the rest of the country suffers for it. the super wealthy also own politicians from all parties so we're kind of fucked. ingrained defeatism is why we lie down on our backs instead of fight to save ourselves.

2. it's shit but products made with corn syrup are extremely addictive.

3. portion sizes used to be normal some 50 years ago. i guess they were made larger and larger to justify raising prices? i'm not sure. it's a huge contributor to obesity and i wish it would stop.

4. fuck guns. no one should have weapons of war in a fucking neighborhood. the gun-loving population tends to be the most fearful population who think they need to protect themselves from black people and Muslims. it's mainly about racism, fear and the desire to feel "powerful". male overcompensation may also be a factor since it's usually men who are obsessed with them. very scared men.

5. fuck trump. he needs to be impeached last year. he won the election because people sat on their asses wishing for better choices instead of facing reality and voting for the lesser of two evils.

he won the election because people sat on their asses wishing for better choices instead of facing reality and voting for the lesser of two evils.

This isn't really why he won, just ftr

low voter turnout is exactly why he won, actually. and racism.

comey's announcement on clinton's emails as well as russian ad meddling on social media didn't help but they weren't the main factors.

low voter turnout

But turnout was up from 2012.

She lost, in the immediate sense, because undecided middle/upper-middle class whites in Rust Belt states broke for Trump. And that was a result of a lot of different things, certainly to some extent a result of the Comey stuff, and racism was a major part of it, and for a bunch of reasons Clinton hadn't been able to put the campaign out of reach which she probably should have been able to do.

Of course, you can always say that turnout could still have been higher and she would have won if more people had voted for her, you can say that in any election, and that's true in some sense, but the immediate reason was Rust Belt undecideds somehow convinced themselves Trump was more presidential.

1. Unfortunately, our healthcare system is very broken and I don't know much about the issue to properly answer why. Based on anecdotal evidence, people seem to think that countries with socialized medicine have broken systems where people die while waiting for treatment and that we shouldn't have to pay for other people to receive healthcare because bootstraps or some bullshit.

2. Sorry, anon, but Reese's are delicious. Although the peanut butter cops from a local candy shop do taste better than the Reese's ones.

3. The portion sizes are huge, but usually, I eat a half or third (depending on the size) of what I get and I take the rest home so I have something to eat for a day or two after.

4. and 5. Honestly, I don't get these either, but I will saw that the orange asshole doesn't have a high approval rating and I can't wait for him to leave.

I think the thing about portion sizes is because the food is relatively cheap. You can add more food and then charge more and people don't question it because they still feel they're getting their money's worth because of the larger size. The profit margin will be higher though, because the cost of the extra food is less than the difference in price. That's especially true with doft drinks, which are just flavored sugar water. You make more money off of each customer that way. If you stop eating when you're full and take the leftovers home, then you're fine.

Everyone I have met who complains about American portion sizes comes from a country where portion sizes are just as big. It's just that in the US, restaurants provide boxes for leftovers, as a pretty much expected thing at the end of a meal.

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